Ranotta Ahrensfield Professor Sherry English 101 10 February 2013 Interview My interview with Professor Barbra Wilson from the education department went very well. Wilson had a lot of very interesting answers and seemed very interested her job. Being a professor was not just her job it is her whole life. Almost everything she does deal with work and she’s pretty passionate about it. She’s a great inspiration so interviewing her was a great experience. I learned that professor Wilson does a lot of informal writing but also some professional writing. She has many emails to answer back too. Wilson said she responds to 20 plus emails a day from students and colleagues. When I asked her who she writes for she responded by saying colleagues and students. I was surprised when she said she does more informal writing then formal. The only reason I was surprised about this was because of her being a professor at a university and I would imagine they wrote more formal papers. The article she mentioned was called Merry-Go-Round and it was about two adjacent, interacting merry-go-rounds exhibit behavior that leads to apparent contradiction between two fundamental principles. The real meaning of this is that it is critical to define a system correctly .Her saying this describes what a great lady she is. If you do no define it correctly certain things might not turn out the same. And it was an interesting article that you would have to be interested in to read. Nothing really surprised me too much. I am trying to change my major to criminal justice so it really does not affect me as much as I’d like it too. I am happy I got to interview her but wished I had asked more questions. The questions she answered didn’t give me enough to write about but that is the only thing I would change. Hopefully I can follow the great advice she gave me in my career path.
Interview
What kinds of writing do you do in your field/job? Both professional for publication and MUCH informal writing, such as emails and memos. Please tell me about the kind of writing you do on an average day. Probably responding to 20+ emails on various topics and from various sources, including students, colleagues and administration. I also prepare PPT presentations, make informative handouts for classes, and write quizzes/exams. For what purposes do you write?
Professional research/publishing, class prep., memos For what audiences do you write? The professional comunity, students, colleagues What is the title of one research article you admire? The Merry-Go-Round What is it that you admire about this article? Provides a nice model of conflice resolution What do you get out of the writing you do? It helps me stay current with the professional literature, answers professional questions
Ranotta Ahrensfield
Professor Sherry
English 101
10 February 2013
Interview
My interview with Professor Barbra Wilson from the education department went very well. Wilson had a lot of very interesting answers and seemed very interested her job. Being a professor was not just her job it is her whole life. Almost everything she does deal with work and she’s pretty passionate about it. She’s a great inspiration so interviewing her was a great experience.
I learned that professor Wilson does a lot of informal writing but also some professional writing. She has many emails to answer back too. Wilson said she responds to 20 plus emails a day from students and colleagues. When I asked her who she writes for she responded by saying colleagues and students. I was surprised when she said she does more informal writing then formal. The only reason I was surprised about this was because of her being a professor at a university and I would imagine they wrote more formal papers.
The article she mentioned was called Merry-Go-Round and it was about two adjacent, interacting merry-go-rounds exhibit behavior that leads to apparent contradiction between two fundamental principles. The real meaning of this is that it is critical to define a system correctly .Her saying this describes what a great lady she is. If you do no define it correctly certain things might not turn out the same. And it was an interesting article that you would have to be interested in to read.
Nothing really surprised me too much. I am trying to change my major to criminal justice so it really does not affect me as much as I’d like it too. I am happy I got to interview her but wished I had asked more questions. The questions she answered didn’t give me enough to write about but that is the only thing I would change. Hopefully I can follow the great advice she gave me in my career path.
Interview
What kinds of writing do you do in your field/job?
Both professional for publication and MUCH informal writing, such as emails and memos.
Please tell me about the kind of writing you do on an average day.
Probably responding to 20+ emails on various topics and from various sources, including students, colleagues and administration. I also prepare PPT presentations, make informative handouts for classes, and write quizzes/exams.
For what purposes do you write?
Professional research/publishing, class prep., memos
For what audiences do you write?
The professional comunity, students, colleagues
What is the title of one research article you admire?
The Merry-Go-Round
What is it that you admire about this article?
Provides a nice model of conflice resolution
What do you get out of the writing you do?
It helps me stay current with the professional literature, answers professional questions